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2023-02-24 15:30:26+00:00
📔 cloud the issue
📋Meaning
To obfuscate or distract from the topic at hand by introducing irrelevant or misleading information.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Politicians are always clouding the issue during debates by pointing out their opponents' history in other issues.
🗣Don't cloud the issue with talk about your past achievements, stick to the question I'm asking you.
🗣His muddled explanation only served to cloud the issue further for his students.
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2023-02-24 04:50:30+00:00
📔 Sleep like a log
📋Meaning
to sleep very soundly (deeply) — so well that noises don't even wake you up.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 My husband slept like a log the entire flight but I didn't even get five minutes of sleep.
🗣 Take this pill at bedtime and you'll sleep like a log tonight.
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2023-02-23 15:30:35+00:00
📔 with (one's) head held high
📋Meaning
Displaying pride and confidence, often (but not always) after something has gone wrong.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Even though I knew I blew the presentation, I walked out of the conference room with my head held high… and then cried in my car.
🗣After hearing that he had been named to the all-star team, Paul walked through the halls with his head held high.
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2023-02-23 10:00:37+00:00
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2023-02-23 03:30:08+00:00
📔 be snowed under
📋Meaning
To be very busy or overwhelmed with something. This phrase evokes the image of being buried under an avalanche.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Kate's not coming tonight because she's snowed under with research for her thesis.
🗣 I'd love to go out to dinner tonight, but I'm totally snowed under at the office right now.
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2023-02-22 17:13:18+00:00
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2023-02-22 15:30:30+00:00
📔 brood over
📋Meaning
To worry anxiously or be despondent about something or someone, especially at great length and in isolation.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I know you're upset about failing your exam, but don't brood over it all weekend.
🗣Tom's been brooding over our financial situation ever since he got laid off last month.
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2023-02-22 03:32:48+00:00
📔 tickle the ivories / ivory
📋Meaning
play the piano
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I learned to tickle the ivories from a very young age so I've been dreaming of getting a grand piano for most of my life.
🗣 My grandfather used to tickle the ivories for a living.
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2023-02-21 15:31:03+00:00
📔 broken record
📋Meaning
A person or thing that repeats itself over and over again. Likened to vinyl records that when severely scratched (i.e., "broken") can loop over the same recorded segment endlessly.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I feel like a broken record having to tell you this each day, but please clean your room!
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2023-02-21 03:30:04+00:00
📔 bore the pants off
📋Meaning
to be extremely boring or uninteresting to someone else.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Spending the weekend with my in-laws really bored the pants off me.
🗣 Not only do my grandfather's good-old-days stories bore the pants off me but he also tells the same stories over and over again.
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2023-02-20 15:30:21+00:00
📔 a bridge too far
📋Meaning
cliché An act or plan whose ambition overreaches its capability, resulting in or potentially leading to difficulty or failure. Taken from the 1974 book A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan, which details the Allies' disastrous attempts to capture German-controlled bridges in the Netherlands during World War II.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The multi-million-dollar purchase of the small startup proved a bridge too far for the social media company, as the added revenue couldn't make up for the cost in the end.
🗣Look, I'm happy to help you guys out, but I'm not willing be the primary investor in your invention—that's just a bridge too far.Apparently, signing an A-list player is just a bridge too far for this team! They'd rather wallow in their mediocrity, I guess.
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2023-02-20 03:30:07+00:00
📔 unsung hero
📋Meaning
Someone who has done something heroic or achieved greatness but has not been recognized or celebrated for the achievement
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Two men were unsung heroes rescuing several puppies from the fire after the police determined it was too dangerous to enter the burning house.
🗣 My colleague was really the unsung hero for the development of our most successful product this year.
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2023-02-19 15:30:53+00:00
📔 break into a smile
📋Meaning
To start smiling.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Even though she scolded me for disrupting class, I'm pretty sure I saw Ms. Miller break into a smile for a second.
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2023-02-19 03:30:56+00:00
📔 Break the bank
📋Meaning
To be very expensive.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “Taking a week-long vacation would break the bank. There’s no way I could afford to do it.”
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2023-02-18 15:30:49+00:00
📔 boots and all
📋Meaning
With maximum effort or enthusiasm; completely and without restraint. Primarily heard in Australia, New Zealand.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣If we set about digging that trench boots and all, then we should be finished before lunchtime.
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2023-02-18 03:30:22+00:00
📔dig your heels in
📋Meaning
to refuse to change your plans or ideas, especially when someone is trying to persuade you to do so.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Even though the developer offered them more than their houses were worth, the owners dug their heels in and refused to sell up and make way for the office block.
🗣When their record company told the band to change their style and make more commercial music, the band dug their heels in and refused to change.
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2023-02-17 15:30:39+00:00
📔 blood in the water
📋Meaning
The exposure of a competitive weakness in an opponent that arouses increased competitive aggression in others. Likened to the literal presence of blood in water that causes aquatic predators (such as sharks) to seek out and attack prey.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣After their opponents' star striker left the match with an injury, the home team smelled blood in the water and brought on their attack with everything they had.
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2023-02-17 03:30:22+00:00
📔 Cut the mustard
📋Meaning
To meet acceptable standards.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Unless you raise the stair treads up, this project won’t cut the mustard.
🗣 "I didn't cut the mustard as a hockey player"
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2023-02-15 15:30:20+00:00
📔 big break
📋Meaning
A fortuitous moment, opportunity, or turn of events of great consequence, especially as relates to one's career.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣A fortuitous moment, opportunity, or turn of events of great consequence, especially as relates to one's career.
🗣I had a big break when a movie director saw me in an improv group and offered me an audition for his new film.
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2023-02-15 03:30:22+00:00
📔 Better late than never
📋Meaning
It is better to be late than to never arrive or never complete a task.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 "it took them the majority of the campaign to come to that conclusion, but better late than never"
🗣 It's been a long time coming but better late than never.
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2023-02-14 15:30:58+00:00
📔 beauty queen
📋Meaning
A woman who has won, or looks as if she could win, a beauty pageant.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣When that beauty queen walked in, everyone's heads turned.
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2023-02-14 13:32:00+00:00
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2023-02-14 03:51:46+00:00
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2023-02-14 03:30:22+00:00
📔 Beat around the bush
📋Meaning
To avoid the difficult part of the conversation.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Quit beating around the bush.
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2023-02-13 15:30:56+00:00
📔 a bit of a stretch
📋Meaning
A mild exaggeration beyond the truth or what is likely the case.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I'm not too fond of taxes either, but it's a bit of a stretch to claim they are the cause of all our problems.
🗣A: "The government is covering up all sorts of extraterrestrial activity." B: "Come on now, don't you think that's a bit of a stretch?"
🗣He still doesn't have the votes? Then I guess it was a bit of a stretch for him to say he'd get the bill passed this week.
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2023-02-13 03:30:10+00:00
📔 At the drop of a hat (part of a sentence)
📋Meaning
To do something without any hesitation.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 If Tara hears her favorite song, she’ll belt out the lyrics at the drop of a hat.
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2023-02-12 20:08:52+00:00
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2023-02-12 15:31:07+00:00
📔(one's) other half
📋Meaning
One's spouse, romantic partner, or boyfriend/girlfriend.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I'd love to come out to the bars with you after work, but I'd better check in with my other half to make sure we don't have any plans for this evening.
🗣The work retreat is meant to be for couples, so be sure to bring your other half!
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2023-02-12 03:30:18+00:00
📔 third time lucky / third time's the charm
📋Meaning
the third time you try to do something you succeed
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I applied for a job with the United Nations three years in a row and finally got offered a job. As they say third time lucky!
🗣Most people give up the first time they fail. Too bad they forget that third time's the charm.
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2023-02-11 15:30:31+00:00
📔 in front of (one's) very eyes
📋Meaning
Right in plain sight or while one is watching.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Someone smashed into my parked car in front of my very eyes.Each day, in front of our very eyes, we see signs of poverty and need on our city's streets.
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2023-02-11 03:30:09+00:00
📔 Add insult to injury (part of a sentence)
📋Meaning
To add another bad situation on top of an existing one.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 To add insult to injury, it started to rain after I locked my keys in my car.
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2023-02-10 16:30:59+00:00
📔 bare (one's) teeth
📋Meaning
To display an angry, violent, or threatening reaction to or against something or someone, as does a dog or wolf when threatened.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I will bare my teeth to anyone who tries to take away my land.
🗣We seemed to be getting along just fine, but she suddenly bared her teeth when I brought up religion.
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2023-02-10 02:30:13+00:00
📔 steady as she goes
📋Meaning
Describing an activity or situation that is progressing in a stable manner. This nautical phrase was originally used in reference to a ship that was sailing steadily. (Ships were traditionally referred to as female.)
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 A: "How's your new business coming along?" B: "Steady as she goes! We expect to break even the first year before we start making a profit."
🗣 In the midst of all this social upheaval, I hope our government can maintain a steady-as-she-goes approach.
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2023-02-09 19:26:44+00:00
📔 backpedal
📋Meaning
To quickly and often abruptly reverse or retreat from one's position or opinion on a given subject. Refers to pedaling backwards on a bicycle (done to apply the brakes on fixed-gear bikes), or to taking quick, backward steps, as in football or boxing.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The actor had to backpedal when he let slip a racist remark during the press conference.
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2023-02-09 08:56:32+00:00
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2023-02-08 17:37:52+00:00
📔 bad hair day
📋Meaning
a bad day in general; a day when many things seem to go wrong
a day when you can't style your hair well and this makes you feel unattractive
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Yesterday, my mom was having a bad hair day so I decided to show her my report card this evening.
🗣 Avoid the boss if you can. He's having yet another bad hair day and is taking his frustrations out on everyone.
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2023-02-08 03:09:27+00:00
📔 out of humour
📋Meaning
In an irritable, grouchy, or unhappy mood; not feeling well or in good spirits. Primarily heard in UK.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I think something is bugging John because he's been rather out of humour lately.
🗣After living in Gibraltar for so long, these awful London winters leave me feeling me out of humour.
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2023-02-07 16:51:52+00:00
📔a chip off the old block
📋Meaning
someone who resembles their parent in character or appearance.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣"she smiled at Jimmy, a chip off the old block with his gray eyes and a bit of his dad's twinkle"
🗣When we saw the alcoholic's son enter the liquor store, we assumed that he was a chip of the old block.
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2023-02-07 02:42:13+00:00
📔 an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
📋Meaning
proverb Compensation or retribution that is (or should be) of an equal amount or degree to the injury or offense that was originally dealt. The saying comes from various passages in the Bible, including in Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I cannot be placated by paltry excuses of reparation! An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth—this I demand from all who have wronged me.
🗣Some countries have laws that punish crimes with an eye for an eye, most often that killing someone will result in one's death.
🗣The world would be a safer place if more people in power would discourage the practice of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
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2023-02-06 19:58:02+00:00
📔 Go with the flow
📋Meaning
To relax and go along with whatever’s happening.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “Quite often in life, good things happen when you don’t make plans. Just go with the flow and see what happens!”
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2023-02-06 04:30:13+00:00
📔 help (someone) out of a fix
📋Meaning
To help someone avoid or escape from some troublesome, difficult, or dangerous position or situation.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣My father's always having to go down to the courthouse to help my knuckle-headed brother out of some fix or another.
🗣Thanks so much for staying late with me to finish that report the other day—you really helped me out of a fix!
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2023-02-05 19:56:12+00:00
📔 See eye to eye
📋Meaning
To agree with someone about something
To have the same opinion as someone else about something
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 My mom and I don't see eye to eye on politics so we discuss other things.
🗣 Happiness is seeing eye to eye with your wife about how to spend money.
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2023-02-05 11:42:46+00:00
📔 alarm bell
📋Meaning
A sudden warning or intimation of danger, risk, or ill fortune. (Often pluralized.)
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Alarm bells were going off in my head when I saw the panicked expression on her face.
🗣The new report set alarm bells ringing among the board members because it forecasts a large decrease in enrollment.
🗣A: "Her new boyfriend's anger management issues don't seem to be setting off an alarm bell for her." B: "Yikes, the situation is worse than I thought."
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2023-02-04 19:35:35+00:00
📔 The grass is greener on the other side
📋Meaning
other people always seem to be in a better situation than you, although they may not be
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Our bookkeeper always imagined that the grass is greener on the other side. She quit her job to pursue a legal education.
🗣 Bob always thinks the grass is greener elsewhere, which accounts for his constant job changes.
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2023-02-04 04:05:52+00:00
📔 against the collar
📋Meaning
Difficult, exhausting, or problematic. The phrase originates from the collar on a horse's harness, which tightens on the horse's neck when it travels uphill. Primarily heard in UK.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I was doing fine in the marathon, but it was a bit against the collar for the last couple miles.
🗣I don't think I have time to meet you today. Work has been a bit against the collar recently.
🗣against the collar recently.Getting this late-breaking story finished in time for tomorrow's newspaper was somewhat against the collar, but it's done now, thankfully.
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2023-02-02 06:12:24+00:00
📔 Up to one's eyeballs
📋Meaning
to have a very large amount of something to do or be very busy with something
to emphasize the extreme degree of some undesirable or unwanted thing
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 We've been using our credit cards so much we're now up to our eyes in debt.
🗣 If you don't wash your clothes again this weekend you'll be up to your eyeballs in laundry.
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2023-02-01 19:34:14+00:00
📔 harrowing experience
📋Meaning
An experience that is frightening, chilling, or disturbing, either due to an implied or actual element of danger, or from being physically or emotionally unpleasant.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣With so much traffic, cycling in this city can be a harrowing experience.
🗣Walking through that graveyard last night was quite the harrowing experience.
🗣The film is very good, but it's a bit of a harrowing experience; it doesn't shy away from intense subject matter.
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2023-02-01 02:07:33+00:00
📔 Let the dust settle
📋Meaning
To allow a situation to become calm or normal again after something exciting or unusual has happened.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “You just had big news yesterday, let the dust settle and don’t make any decisions yet.”
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2023-02-25 15:30:38+00:00
📔 lap up
📋Meaning
To ingest something, usually a liquid, by licking. A noun or pronoun can be used between "lap" and "up."
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Those kittens must have been hungry—they've already lapped up all the milk in the saucer.
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2023-02-27 03:30:51+00:00
📔 make someone sick
📋Meaning
to make someone appalled, shocked or disgusted.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I can’t believe you ate that entire bucket of fried chicken—you make me sick.
🗣 Listening to my sister talk to her boyfriend in her whiny baby voice makes me so sick.
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2023-02-27 15:30:34+00:00
📔 a sticky situation
📋Meaning
A particularly awkward, embarrassing, precarious, or difficult situation or circumstance. Primarily heard in UK, Australia.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I found myself in a bit of a sticky situation when the boss saw me kissing his daughter at the movies.
🗣I'll be in quite a sticky situation if I arrive at the train station and don't have enough money for the tickets!
🗣We have to fire the headmaster's son for sleeping on the job? Oh great, there's a sticky situation.
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2023-02-28 15:30:24+00:00
📔 by stealth
📋Meaning
In an undetected way; silently and secretly.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The cat burglar entered the office by stealth, and the only evidence he was there was the missing document.
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